Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:44:14PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Thanks, I'll try that - though I have not much time to do so, since the machine starts swapping (though it has 8Gb memory). Furtheron I've found out, that sci-mathematics/dataplot had BROWSER=xdg-open in it's /etc/env.d/90dataplot file. Thus it went into /etc/profile.env. I think it's very strange that a package may modify such a vital environment variable as 'BROWSER'. That is just setting the default. If you have any preferences set in your user's environment, it shouldn't be affected. Is this a bug in sci-mathematics/dataplot ? Not really. See `man xdg-open` for what this program does. (It is part of x11-misc/xdg-utils, you may also want to look at the man page for xdg-settings). The programs are *supposed* to provide cross-platform/cross-desktop/cross-toolkit interoperability. Basically trying to save you the problem from being either locked-down to your current desktop environment's way of configuring which program is used to open which type of documents and the problem of having to go into every single program to change the preferred browser in their settings when you decide that, say, you no longer want to use Firefox and now prefers Opera. In terms of a default it is a fairly sensible one, and works okay with full-blown desktop environments. (Does anyone know if it works with enlightenment?) So on my work compute with Gnome it is great. But on my home computer with Fvwm, not so much. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
[gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash
Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to some settings the user's home directory. Many thanks for your help, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash
On 03/31/2011 01:26:05 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to some settings the user's home directory. Sorry for answering myself. I've found out that /etc/profile.env contained BROWSER=xdg-open a simple env-update fixed this to BROWSER=firefox I just don't know how this setting went into /etc/profile.env Thanks, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash
2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to some settings the user's home directory. Use pstree to see what is executing it when this is happening. Br, Maciej Grela
Re: [gentoo-user] *** URGENT *** xdg-open respawns itself until crash
On 03/31/2011 01:32:30 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2011/3/31 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, I have a big problem on a very import machine here. Although it's a bit copy of a running machine, it somehow respawns xdg-open until the system is out of memory and therefore unresponsive or it crashes. How can I find out which process tries to start xdg-open? It assume it's connected to some settings the user's home directory. Use pstree to see what is executing it when this is happening. Thanks, I'll try that - though I have not much time to do so, since the machine starts swapping (though it has 8Gb memory). Furtheron I've found out, that sci-mathematics/dataplot had BROWSER=xdg-open in it's /etc/env.d/90dataplot file. Thus it went into /etc/profile.env. I think it's very strange that a package may modify such a vital environment variable as 'BROWSER'. Is this a bug in sci-mathematics/dataplot ? Thanks, and sorry for getting panic-stricken, Helmut.
